They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

Say unto God, How awesome are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves unto you.

Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.

You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Say among the nations that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise you the LORD.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever.

Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever.

Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

[A song of ascents.] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Neither do they who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:

Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it with you.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Say unto wisdom, you are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

The slothful man says, There is a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.

They have stricken me, you shall say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that weighs the heart consider it? and he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

He that says unto the wicked, you are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

The slothful man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not jesting?

Whosoever robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

The leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.

This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Permit not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.

Say you not, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, adding one thing to another, to find out the reason:

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What are you doing?

Yea also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will rid myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies:

And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and tripping as they go, and making a jingling with their feet:

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Thus says the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

Say not, A conspiracy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear you their threats, nor be afraid.

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that are mediums, and unto wizards that whisper, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? rather than the dead on behalf of the living?

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, that say in the pride and arrogance of heart,

For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings?

For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.

And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.

And in that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

They all shall speak and say unto you, have you also become weak as we? have you become like unto us?

For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.

I will also make it a possession for the owls, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says the LORD of hosts.

Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in its outmost fruitful branches, says the LORD God of Israel.

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh give foolish counsel: how do you say unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

And the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, Behold, such is our hope, to which we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: how then shall we escape?

And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you unto this steward, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the peg that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste.

And the vision of all has become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.

Woe unto them that go the depths to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the thing made say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, He had no understanding?

Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now grow pale.

Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them:

For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: but you would not.

You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall say unto them, Get away.

And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.